The Ravenous Audience (Black Goat) by Kate Durbin

The launch event for Kate Durbin's debut poetry collection, The Ravenous Audience, featuring Chris Abani, curator of the Black Goat poetry series and acclaimed author and poet.

Born in San Diego and raised in Washington, California, and Arizona, Kate Durbin
is author of a chapbook, Amelia Earhart: Fragments Found in a 1937
Aviator's Boot, published by Dancing Girl Press. Her poems have
appeared in Drunken Boat, elimae, Boxcar Poetry Review, and The Ledge,
as well as other journals. She holds an MFA from the University of
California, Riverside and lives in Whittier, California, where she is
working on a novel.

Chris Abani's prose
includes Song For Night (Akashic, 2007), The Virgin of Flames (Penguin,
2007), Becoming Abigail (Akashic, 2006), GraceLand (FSG, 2004), and
Masters of the Board (Delta, 1985). His poetry collections are Hands
Washing Water (Copper Canyon, 2006), Dog Woman (Red Hen, 2004),
Daphne's Lot (Red Hen, 2003), and Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001); and
he is the curator of Akashic Books' Black Goat Poetry Series. He is a
Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient
of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan
Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy
Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize
& a Guggenheim Award.